Alaska primary, August 18, 2026

Governor

Nonpartisan primary

3 OF 4 THROUGH

Through to the general, leading

21.6%Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (D)+1.5 over Begich

Votes counted

131,501of about 158,967 expected

Share of expected vote in

82.7%400 of 402 precincts have reported

Gap at 4th place

1,265Bronson holds the last place forward over Taylor, in votes

The field

17 on the ballot, ordered by vote. Every party runs on one ballot in this contest, so each name carries its own. This primary does not pick a nominee: the top four finishers advance to the general election. three of the four are settled so far.

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins(D)Advancing to the general21.6%28,406 votes

Tom Begich(D)Advancing to the general20.1%26,384 votes

Bernadette Wilson(R)Advancing to the general10.4%13,717 votes

Dave Bronson(R)8.4%11,041 votes

Treg Taylor(R)7.4%9,776 votes

Click Bishop(R)7.2%9,493 votes

Adam Crum(R)5.7%7,454 votes

Shelley Hughes(R)5.6%7,319 votes

Bill Walker(I)4.5%5,926 votes

Matt Heilala(R)2.7%3,538 votes

Meda DeWitt(I)2.5%3,282 votes

Edna DeVries(R)1.4%1,802 votes

Lesil McGuire(R)1.3%1,742 votes

Michael Gilbert(R)0.4%544 votes

James Parkin(R)0.4%502 votes

Destry Payne(I)0.2%305 votes

Henry Kroll(R)0.2%270 votes

How the vote was cast

Of the 131,501 votes counted so far, 128,704 come with the ballot type published. Mail ballots are usually counted first and election-day ballots last, so a lead built on one can move as the others land. Each bar below is that way of voting on its own: who won it, and by how much.

Ballots counted so far, by type

Mail and absentee2.1%2,664 votesEarly in person10.2%13,091 votesElection day87.8%112,949 votes

Mail and absentee2,664 votes, 2% of the count

Begich (D)30.6%816Kreiss-Tomkins (D)23.9%638Taylor (R)7.6%202Wilson (R)7.3%195Bronson (R)6.2%164Bishop (R)5.4%143

Begich won mail and absentee ballots by 6.7 points over Kreiss-Tomkins, though Kreiss-Tomkins leads the race overall.

Early in person13,091 votes, 10% of the count

Begich (D)27.4%3,586Kreiss-Tomkins (D)24.7%3,232Wilson (R)9.8%1,280Taylor (R)6.2%808Bronson (R)6.1%799Bishop (R)5.9%777

Begich won early in person ballots by 2.7 points over Kreiss-Tomkins, though Kreiss-Tomkins leads the race overall.

Election day112,949 votes, 88% of the count

Kreiss-Tomkins (D)21.1%23,817Begich (D)18.9%21,330Wilson (R)10.6%11,949Bronson (R)8.8%9,961Taylor (R)7.6%8,590Bishop (R)7.4%8,329

Kreiss-Tomkins won election day ballots by 2.2 points over Begich.

Registered voters across the boroughs and census areas in this race: 601,104 in total, which the 131,501 votes counted so far are 21.9% of. Registration is the whole electorate, not the primary electorate, so it sets the scale rather than predicting the result.

What is left to count

28 of 29 boroughs and census areas finished, 29 reporting anything.

Every borough with an estimate has counted its expected vote.

Where the vote is coming from

Shaded for whoever leads each borough, deeper where the margin is wider. Click one to pin it below.

Kreiss-Tomkins (D)Begich (D)Wilson (R)Bronson (R)Taylor (R)Bishop (R)

Every borough

29 boroughs and census areas in this race. Every borough has reported something. These cover 128,704 of the 131,501 votes counted; the other 2,797 were counted districtwide across boroughs and census areas they cannot be assigned to, and are in the ledger below. Click any of them to break it down above.

Every precinct

402 precincts, plus 120 batches counted districtwide rather than back at a precinct: early voting, absentee and question ballots. 2 precincts have counted nothing yet, between them 521 registered voters. Click any of them to break it down above.

Topline returns from the Decision Desk HQ public results feed, with the boroughs and census areas, precincts and ballot-type splits read from the Alaska Division of Elections precinct file and state's own precinct boundaries placed against Census county lines, and reconciled against each other on every candidate's total. Percentages are the share within this contest. Where a borough publishes no precinct count, progress is its counted vote against the expected total, or the feed’s own completion flag, and is labeled as such. Lead confidence describes how much of the vote is still out, not a polling forecast. Results are unofficial until certified.